Quotes About Culture

I think America becomes more disgruntled by going to the movies and having an endlessly good time at them.

They weren't great pictures, but they were fun, and they really represented that period of time well.

My first months in Sofia were a time of intense disorientation: I had never been to that part of the world before; I could barely speak the language; everything seemed strange to me.

I pick up the New York Times or Time and it's talking about the latest rock group, which I'm sure is exciting to some people, but it neglects a huge area of music.

That you've got to do anything that you feel is precious. I especially believe that about cultures and languages. You've got to be really conscious because time is running out.

We are all products of our time, vulnerable to history.

Well, I was going to school in Germany. And in my free time I was dancing.

I am suggesting that there is, and always has been, a rather high correlation between ethnicity and occupation/economic role throughout the various time-space zones of historical capitalism.

If you don't have public hangings for bad culture in a company, if you don't take people out and let them say, they went home to spend more time with the family. It's crazy.

I know my own deficiencies, one of which is that I had lived away from America for such a long time. It's called expatriate

You might be a redneck if the first words out of your mouth every time you see friends are Howdy!, Hey! or How Y'all Doin'?

I have a theory. An audience doesn't need to get wrapped up in blackness every time they see a Negro actor. And a movie doesn't have to be about race just because there's a Negro in it.

I think it's time to travel, start gathering some real right-in-there experiences with street musicians around the world.

Everyone I know has attention deficit, and they say it with great pride. It's a bad time to be right.

The '60s were an amazing time.

You knows dat in New Orleans is not morning 'til dee sun come up.

I spent a college semester in a small town in Italy - and that is where I truly tasted food for the first time.

It is an agreeable and yet a painful sense of novelty to stand for the first time in the midst of a people whose language and manners are different from one's own.

Man simply cannot live as the time-animal and the art-animal that he is, without history.

I write about times and places I would visit in a time machine, like ancient Rome or the Wild West.

Perhaps it is time to debate culture. The common story is that in "real" African culture, before it was tainted by the west, gender roles were rigid and women were contentedly oppressed.

I remember going for the first time to a place called The Roxy in New York because you can see people breakdancing there. That's the only reason I went! It's amazing, kids are still doing that.

I know Im British. I havent spent much time in the U.K., but my parents are British, my family heritage is British, so if I wasnt British, what would I be? I am British.

The '90s were indeed a great time to be alive. There was a sense of optimism that I never felt before that decade and I haven't felt since.